Searching (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (LP 3036)

Lynyrd Skynyrd  Gimme Back My Bullets (Vinyl, MCA Records, 1993) ***  

Genre: Southern rock 

Places I remember: Margie's brother's collection.

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Searching

Gear costume: Give Me Back My Bullets

They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5

Active compensatory factors: I've written about the other Skynyrd albums I own before, both the studio efforts and the live ones.

Their fourth studio album came to me via Margie's brother who used to be a rep for Festival Records. I sold his collection for him (we had a 50-50 deal). He had them in old cardboard boxes and hadn't looked after them really. So, I sorted them out, cleaned them, priced them and sold them for him. Along the way I spotted a few to keep and this was one of them.

Tom Dowd was the producer chosen for this set of songs and it's not really a happy marriage. The recording just doesn't sound as exciting as their earlier studio efforts (I don't own Nuthin' Fancy*).

There are a couple of good songs but the album is a bit inconsistent, and the JJ Cale cover this time out - The Same Old Blues Again falls flat.

Where do they all belong? *I really should grab a copy of their third album, Nuthin' Fancy. I'm not sure why I haven't done that along the way.

And, that's if for L! Madness kicks off the M's next post.